Practical Survival Advice

For the record I'll be planning in my 1.2 acre food forest in the spring. Since I live here in Florida I am going to start plants from seeds / small cuttings that consist of pigeon peas, lentils, everglades tomatoes, moringa, chaya, hibiscus, sunflowers.

All in all about 300 plants in this selection.

Previously I started a lot of seed in 16 oz solo cup set of for drainage. When the plants got larger enough to transplant either into larger pots or into a raised bed garden…….I had…

What is the optimal container size to avoid transplant shock?

Came across this last night and it is a good reason to turn your phones off when you don't need to use it,

Google etc just proved all the Conspiracy Theories to be True.

I'm not sure if it was here or elsewhere, but i see people talking about maxing out their credit cards.

If you're thinking of doing this… stop it.

It is unlikely to happen any time soon due to the many and various tools the US Gov/FedResBank have at their disposal to prevent the collapse. If it does happen in the next decade, it was because TPTB wanted it to happen.

Do not make bad financial decisions because you think the end is near. The end has been near for a long time!

It is due to begin late Saturday night. Loss of power expected and wind chill below zero for a week. Cool part is, we prep. We didn't have much to do and we are still 2 days out. Wood ready. Ran gennys and all good. Gas already on stand by. Propane filled.

Anyone live in the path of this storm?

Kind of a fanciful thought…but if a truck were heading in your direction, trying to run you down, and you were in a crowd of people – hard to get out of the way…you pull your pistol…what parts of the truck would you shoot to get it to stop quickly?